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Newspaper
Middletown Journal
Location
Middletown, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Feb 25, 1948
Page
8
A training session for volunteer helpers who will assist veterans in applying for the state bonus is set for Thursday night at the Legion Armory. E A Lampe says 138 workers will be briefed on handling individual cases and urges prompt return of assignment forms.
A wartime advertisement promotes Wonder Salve for psoriasis eczema infections and athlete’s foot. It claims soothing effects with no acids or alcohol and promises removal of ugly appearance. Sold in Middletown by Castell and home stores or your hometown druggist.
About 30 Middletown Camera Club members gathered Tuesday in the Civic Association Girl Scout Room for a studio night. Models Beverly Smith Pat Smiley and two year old Beverly Ann Rossfeld posed as thousands of dollars of equipment rested nearby. A print showing will be March 23 with models choosing their prints. Next meeting is March 9 featuring an eye competition on Snow Scenes.
Sn and Save Week advertises Pattern 9277 a striped dress pattern with sizes 12 through 42 and a 3 percent yard requirement for size 16. Send 25 cents to Middle town Journal Pattern Dept for the pattern and include name address zone size and style number. Tomorrow features a Spring blouse and a Marian Martin Pattern Book add on.
Monroe Lions Club heard WPFB station manager Ranny Daly discuss creating a local television operation. He warned TV will replace radio, citing a $10,000 per camera cost and at least three cameras needed, with $250,000 plus staff for a station. March 8 tour planned of Champion Fiber and Paper Company.
Sid Gillman Miami Redskins coach entertained Rotary Club members at their new meeting with films of the Sun Bowl game the Miami Cincinnati game and a Juarez bull fight. He offered detailed blocking technique descriptions by controlling the playback and re running plays.
Larry Woodside of the Al Felt Company Albany will speak at the monthly dinner meeting of the Miami Valley Division of the Superintendents Association of The American Pulp and Paper Mill Association. Arthur H. Wilson secretary treasurer announced. The event is in the Manchester Hotel Junior Room with dinner at 6 30 p m. Arthur Gardner of Champion Paper and Fibre Company Hamilton chairs the Miami Valley division. About 75 representatives from local paper mills and allied industries will attend to hear Woodside discuss Felts and Their Application to Paper Machines.
The American Legion hosts a stag party tonight in the Armory with a fish fry games and other entertainment planned. Charles Merchant leads the event with plans for 300 guests and Dick Minge and his orchestra will provide music for the Saturday dance.
A late 19th century project began on an English channel tunnel in 1882 but was later abandoned. The effort involved engineers and officials seeking a submerged cross-channel link, yet no progress reached completion.
Robert Q. Millan treasurer of the Middletown Unit of the American Cancer Society will appear Friday night before the Board of Appeals at the Civic Association building to explain the new fiscal year budget. The committee estimates 15000 dollars are needed for tumor clinic operations at Middletown Hospital and funds for an information center at the clinic. Approval is sought in preparation for the annual funds campaign starting in early spring.
Frank Esselman Sr. of Jefferson Road was fined twenty dollars and suspended for permitting an unlicensed person to operate his car in Municipal Court before Judge Alton H. Larceny charges against two men, Robert Jones and Smith, were dismissed at the witness's request. Three men were sent to the Cincinnati Workhouse for 30 days each, while six others were fined seventy dollars total for intoxication.
Automobiles driven by Colbert and Moore were damaged in a collision at 2 30 pm on State Route 4 near S Ra. Passengers Mary Howell and Fannie McCloud escaped injury, per Deputy Fritz.
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